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Back in Liverpool, Levi immediately made a decision to invest in this film made by a British screenwriter. He planned to shoot it at a cost of 2000 million pounds, but Liverpool only planned to invest 300 million pounds.Another 700 million pounds will be invested by Hollywood film companies or British film companies.

Some people may wonder, if I invested all in "Fame", didn't I earn all the money?

If things were that simple, Li Wei would naturally do it.

Although he is not from the entertainment industry, his girlfriend Emilia Clarke is, and the football player also likes to find female stars in the entertainment industry to be his girlfriend. After getting in touch with him a lot, Levi naturally knows that making movies is not what he imagined. So simple.

For example, when shooting a film, the first thing to do is the preparation. Professionals must be responsible for these, and they are called producers in the film. Otherwise, if you ask him to prepare for an ordinary person, does he know what to prepare for?He doesn't even know what camera to use for filming.

After filming, there is distribution.

Distribution is not as simple as going to a movie theater and saying you can show my movie. The companies behind each movie theater are different. If you talk about it one by one, you don’t know if you can talk about a 100 yuan screen in a year. .Therefore, a professional distribution company is needed to be responsible for this part. They have such channels, and they have long-term cooperation with many movie theaters. It is so powerful that you can get two or 3000 yuan screens for the premiere.

In addition to contacting the cinema, the distribution company is also responsible for publicity. In this area, the other party may not be the best, but they must be the most familiar.

Finally, you have to prevent being scammed!
For example, after a movie is shot, many people think your movie is good, and then many distribution companies come up with quotations. After arduous negotiations, you successfully negotiate with a distribution company and get the price you think is suitable.

And after a few days, the distribution company suddenly said that the film would not work here or anywhere, and that the contract would be amended, and if it did not work, it would be a breach of contract.

Well, if you breach the contract, you will breach the contract, and you will still have money.At this time, you are dumbfounded when you see the liquidated damages, which is only tens of thousands of dollars.

More importantly, you have announced that you have cooperated with this company before, and other companies have negotiated with other films, and even successfully negotiated.And if you negotiate with other distribution companies, others will definitely take the opportunity to lower the price, so you finally find out that you are in the best interest by cooperating with the distribution company that has already breached the contract.

It's just that if the previous interest was ten, then the current interest will become six, or even lower.

In addition, there are false accounts. For example, an ordinary egg costs less than a few tens of cents. You can't imagine that it is worth hundreds of dollars in the account.

Of course, these distribution companies will not be really stupid enough to write eggs as hundreds of dollars. This kind of loophole is too obvious, and they will increase the price of some high-tech equipment by more than ten times.Obviously, the scene that can be completed by scrapping only one scrapped car with a refurbishment of paint has turned into three brand new cars.Why three?The first shot was not good, the second time was not good, and the third time was passed!
In fact, it's just a repainted car!

Therefore, investors lose money on movies that make money on the bright side.

The famous one is "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows". As the distributor, Warner Bros. received [-] million US dollars from the total box office of these two films.

Based on this amount, Harry Potter Studios began the relevant financial calculations.

Harry Potter Studio is only the producer of the film. It signed a distribution contract with Warner Bros. According to the agreement, 24% of the total box office of the two films of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" The distribution fee belonging to Warner Bros., which is 4000% of the [-] billion US dollars, is about [-] million US dollars.

This part of the money will be deducted by Warner Bros., which is very reasonable. It is impossible for any distribution company not to charge a handling fee.

Then there is the film's promotion and marketing expenses. In the statement submitted by Warner Bros., "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" spent 2000 million US dollars in this regard, and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" spent $3000 million. The related expenditure is 5000 million US dollars, and the total is [-] million US dollars.

This part of the funds is basically advanced by Warner Bros., so it has to be deducted from the proceeds.In fact, the Warner Brothers gave the money from the left hand to the right hand, because most of the channels used for film promotion and marketing belong to Time Warner.

After deducting these amounts, which totaled up to $9000 million, the remaining $1000 million went to the Harry Potter Studios.

But those who signed up for a share of the box office profits were not yet able to participate in the ranks of sharing the funds, because the Harry Potter studio also deducted production costs.

In this regard, the Harry Potter studio did not do anything. The total production cost of the two films of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" is [-] million US dollars, which is well known.

However, this is not over.

The Harry Potter studio didn't have enough money to invest in the film, so it worked on a $[-] million loan from a film foundation at Duke.

More than three years have passed since the original loan, and Harry Potter Studio needs to pay $700 million in interest to Duke's foundation.

Plus the principal of $700 million, the final Harry Potter studio needs to repay Duke's foundation $1000 million.And what they got before was only [-] million US dollars!

In other words, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is losing money on the books!

A total loss of 700 million US dollars!
A discerning person naturally knows that this is the cost of borrowing from the left hand to the right hand, but Harry Potter Studio is a financially independent company, and paying interest on loans is not just a matter of course.It is also in full compliance with the relevant laws and regulations.

Therefore, from an accounting point of view, the first and second films of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" were completely loss-making at the box office.

In this way, those main creators who have signed a net revenue sharing agreement with the film studio will not receive any money.

If Li Wei doesn't want to be tricked by these people in the film industry, he must share enough profits and find a reliable distribution company to cooperate with.

For the time being, this is not in a hurry, because the movie cannot be shot in a short while.

Li Wei has a lot of time to refine, and he plans to hand over this matter to the general manager Al.In business matters, Al has never let him down.

For example, Liverpool's chest advertisement for Standard Chartered Bank, as well as the high jersey sponsorship fees, are all managed by Ayre.